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I thought I would share the recent Fourth of July Crafts posts all in one place, so that you can get to them easily!  Many of these can be done with supplies you probably have around the house!  Have fun and happy Fourth of July!!  I hope you have a great holiday weekend!!

• Fourth of July Necklace Craft
• Flag Craft
• Fourth of July door hanger
• Fourth of July Crafts

Enjoy!!

This is a fun Fourth of July Craft that your kids can wear after they make it and sport their patriotism!!  This fourth of July necklace will give them great pride, since they will know they made their special necklace!!

Supplies:

• Beads – blue, white, red
• Elastic thread

Steps:

1. Put the red, white and blue beads in a bowl
2. Tie one bead to the end of the elastic thread
3. Thread beads onto the elastic string in a pattern
4. When you are complete tie the string to the original bead and you have your necklace.

Enjoy!  Happy Fourth of July!

Here is another one of the Fourth of July Crafts for Toddlers!  This is really fun and you can make a lot of these Flag decorations and decorate your house or party with them.

Supplies:

• White construction paper
• Red/Blue/White Paint
• Pencil
• Ruler

Steps:

1. Draw the rectangle for the stars and lines for the stripes in pencil
2. Show your child where do paint red and blue and what parts to keep white
3. Show them a picture of the American Flag to help them know how to do it.
4. Make sure to stay with them as they paint in case they forget the pattern.
5. When the blue is dry, help them paint the stars.

Have fun! Enjoy!

Happy Fourth of July!!

In keeping with our Fouth of July theme, we made another Fourth of July Craft. We made a Rainstick/Noisemaker.

This one can actually be made at any time, you would just decorate it differently! It’s fun and easy and your kids can play with it after! Best of all, you probably have most of the supplies handy.

Supplies:

• Paper towel Holder
• Saran Wrap
• Tape
• Rice/pasta
• Glue Stick
• Red/White or Blue Construction paper
• Red/white/Blue Paint
• Star Sponge (you can cut this out of a regular sponge if you don’t have one)

Steps:

1. Stamp Blue and White stars on Red construction paper
2. Let it Dry
3. On bottom of papertowel roll hold saran wrap and tape around it to make a bottom to the Paper towel holder
4. Fill Paper Towel 1/4 way with rice/pasta
5. Put Saran Wrap on top, tape around to seal
6. Take Dried Star Print Construction paper, and tape end of it to Paper towel roll
7. Cut off Extra that goes above Paper Towel Roll
8. Glue Print construction paper to paper towel roll

Your done!! You now have a fun music maker and noise maker for the Fourth of July. You can do this activity at anytime.  Just change how you decorate the paper!!